Ranchi police have arrested five persons in connection with kidnapping and gang rape of two minor girls under Namkum police station area of Ranchi district on Sunday night.
Police informed that among the arrested persons are Prem Kacchap, Ravi Minz, Subhas Munda, Vikas Nayak and David Horo. One of the accused namely Manoj is still absconding in the case. One of the girls aged 17 years has alleged that arrested persons have committed the crime against her. The medical examination of the girl has been conducted for confirmation of her statement. Police said that victims, both of them residents of Doranda area, had visited the Ramta dam in Khunti district on Sunday with their boyfriends for celebration. While returning back in the evening the boys accompanying the girls had a quarrel with the accused persons on the issue of overtaking of bikes. The accused persons overpowered the boys and then kidnapped the girls.
After getting information about the crime from the boys police swung into action and arrested one of the accused persons from the Kharsidag police outpost area. The remaining accused persons were also nabbed within hours of the crime in the search operation in the same area.
Ranchi SSP Anis Gupta said that case of kidnapping and gang rape has been registered against the all six persons. He added he was personally monitoring the case adding ASP rank officer would supervise the same.